I suggest to change the way IRQs are handed out to PCI devices.
Currently, each I/O APIC pin gets associated with an IRQ, no matter if the
pin is used or not. It is expected that each pin can potentually be
engaged by a device inserted into the corresponding PCI slot. However,
this imposes severe limitation on systems that have designs that employ
many I/O APICs, only utilizing couple lines of each, such as P64H2 chipset.
It is used in ES7000, and currently, there is no way to boot the system
with more that 9 I/O APICs.
The simple change below allows to boot a system with say 64 (or more) I/O
APICs, each providing 1 slot, which otherwise impossible because of the IRQ
gaps created for unused lines on each I/O APIC. It does not resolve the
problem with number of devices that exceeds number of possible IRQs, but
eases up a tension for IRQs on any large system with potentually large
number of devices.
I only implemented this for the ACPI boot, since if the system is this big
and using newer chipsets it is probably (better be!) an ACPI based system
:). The change is completely "mechanical" and does not alter any internal
structures or interrupt model/implementation. The patch works for both
i386 and x86_64 archs. It works with MSIs just fine, and should not
intervene with implementations like shared vectors, when they get worked
out and incorporated.
To illustrate, below is the interrupt distribution for 2-cell ES7000 with
20 I/O APICs, and an Ethernet card in the last slot, which should be eth1
and which was not configured because its IRQ exceeded allowable number (it
actially turned out huge - 480!):
zorro-tb2:~ # cat /proc/interrupts
CPU0 CPU1 CPU2 CPU3 CPU4 CPU5 CPU6 CPU7
0: 65716 30012 30007 30002 30009 30010 30010 30010 IO-APIC-edge timer
4: 373 0 725 280 0 0 0 0 IO-APIC-edge serial
8: 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 IO-APIC-edge rtc
9: 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 IO-APIC-level acpi
14: 39 3 0 0 0 0 0 0 IO-APIC-edge ide0
16: 108 13 0 0 0 0 0 0 IO-APIC-level uhci_hcd:usb1
18: 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 IO-APIC-level uhci_hcd:usb3
19: 15 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 IO-APIC-level uhci_hcd:usb2
23: 3 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 IO-APIC-level ehci_hcd:usb4
96: 4240 397 18 0 0 0 0 0 IO-APIC-level aic7xxx
97: 15 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 IO-APIC-level aic7xxx
192: 847 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 IO-APIC-level eth0
NMI: 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
LOC: 273423 274528 272829 274228 274092 273761 273827 273694
ERR: 7
MIS: 0
Even though the system doesn't have that many devices, some don't get
enabled only because of IRQ numbering model.
This is the IRQ picture after the patch was applied:
zorro-tb2:~ # cat /proc/interrupts
CPU0 CPU1 CPU2 CPU3 CPU4 CPU5 CPU6 CPU7
0: 44169 10004 10004 10001 10004 10003 10004 6135 IO-APIC-edge timer
4: 345 0 0 0 0 244 0 0 IO-APIC-edge serial
8: 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 IO-APIC-edge rtc
9: 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 IO-APIC-level acpi
14: 39 0 3 0 0 0 0 0 IO-APIC-edge ide0
17: 4425 0 9 0 0 0 0 0 IO-APIC-level aic7xxx
18: 15 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 IO-APIC-level aic7xxx, uhci_hcd:usb3
21: 231 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 IO-APIC-level uhci_hcd:usb1
22: 26 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 IO-APIC-level uhci_hcd:usb2
23: 3 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 IO-APIC-level ehci_hcd:usb4
24: 348 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 IO-APIC-level eth0
25: 6 192 0 0 0 0 0 0 IO-APIC-level eth1
NMI: 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
LOC: 107981 107636 108899 108698 108489 108326 108331 108254
ERR: 7
MIS: 0
Not only we see the card in the last I/O APIC, but we are not even close to
using up available IRQs, since we didn't waste any.
Signed-off-by: Natalie Protasevich <Natalie.Protasevich@unisys.com>
Acked-by: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Natalie Protasevich
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